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• All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Responsibility, Men

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• Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• A man lives by believing something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.315

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• Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ratios, Increase, Decrease

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• Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poor, Creatures

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• Time has only a relative existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Existence, Relative

  Thomas Carlyle (2012). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872”, p.31, tredition

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• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Giving, Soul

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• Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

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  Intellectual, Mind, Territory

  Thomas Carlyle (1845). “The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works”, p.56, London : Chapman and Hall

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• Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

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  Men, Soul, Immortal

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• Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

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  Men, Shadow, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.90

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• No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wags, Tongue, Pens

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.17

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• All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Hands, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

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• Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Raw Materials, Dupes

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Making Money, Hell, These Days

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• The genuine essence of truth never dies.

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  Truth, Essence, Genuine

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.74

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• Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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  Animal, Men, Tools

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

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  Men, Clothes, Suits

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

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  Running, Spiritual, Age

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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Library, These Days

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

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• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Past, Remembrance

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

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• Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

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  Rushing, Swim, Rolling

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• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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  Doubt, Certainty, Converting

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• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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  Imagination, Understanding, Matter

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Economics, Professors, Respectable

  1850 Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.1,'The Present Time'.

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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